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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Morning, Paul.

Morning, Frank.

I bet this makes you happy that you got into this racket.

Does that mean you're not going to argue with me about wearing it next time?

Wait a minute.

Hi, Grandpa.

Hey, Jack.

Uncle Jeffrey and them are parking the car.

Your mom in one of her moods? Yeah, she's fighting with Uncle Jeffrey. About

what this time?

Where's my little granddaughter?

Sorry, Dad. She has practice and Rebecca's working late. We brought you

stuff here.

Oh, thank you, thank you.

Vicki, quit flossing.

Dad, cover your chest.

Hey, are they letting you out for buck season?

This will be the year I get my first deer.

I don't know, kiddo. It's only August.

You know, it's a long way off.

Are you going to operate next?

Oh, Jeffrey.

Paul wants to see my things from the war, you know, and I told him that...

Where's Paul?

The nurse.

Oh!

Ah, I forgot.

Did you get that water? Yeah, under the basement, yeah. And I also have to

replace those pipes underneath the hallway, too.

Yeah, I was meant to get to those, you know. I'll get it, I'll get it. Listen,

did you also get the ones with the outside hose?

Yeah, that's it. They didn't even finish up in here.

Vicki, they were interrupted.

Anyway... Paul wants to see my marine things.

Who's Paul?

The nurse.

Just bring in the box, will you?

Well, either way, I'm talking to them about your medication.

Paul takes care of me personally.

Hey, Dad, are you sure that stuff's going to be safe here? I mean, there's

valuable things in there.

What good is it doing me at home?

Rip it and bring it back.

Okay?

Oh, yeah, yeah, thanks. Now we got both.

Because I had the first one. This one's better, man.

Helps me stay awake in here.

Helps me keep my mind off of that stuff.

How long you work this line?

Oh, I just started.

You better learn.

Oh, I'm so sorry. You don't have to leave, Alice.

No, no.

No, it's all right. I mean, I'm imposing it.

When have you ever not been welcome? Sit.

Okay.

You do that every time.

Do what?

Have my hand up today.

You remembered.

Oh, honey, thank you so much.

It's up to five million this week.

Do you ever win?

Why, you think I'm holding out on you? That I bought a house in the Bahamas and

I'm hanging around your grandmother to just hide it from you?

Mind your sorting line.

I'd like to keep those there.

Those were Mom's nail clippers, weren't they?

Remember,

you said you'd come up to the cabin this year.

Oh, Vicki.

Jack wants you there when he uses the rifle you bought him. Vicki.

At least come up for Labor Day. See how things go.

Sorry, Dad.

She's... I know.

She's worried about me.

Oh, are you going to be able to bring up my stuff?

Yeah, yeah, of course I will.

Why? What's the rush?

Well, Paul's excited, you know.

He's not going to take anything, is he?

You know, you and your sister are quite a pair.

I finally find somebody I can talk to, and your sister accuses him of not doing

his job, and you call him a thief.

No, I'm sorry. I didn't mean that. I just, I don't know the guy.

Well, I do.

Jeffrey?

Do you think I've become a fool?

No, Dad.

I don't think that.

Get some rest, huh?

Essentially cool?

Yeah, essentially cool.

I hear an embarrassment. I'm not, I'm not embarrassed. Ladies?

Hi.

Did they test his lungs?

Uh, they did some tests yesterday, yeah.

Did the doctor change his medications?

Uh, no, he didn't order any change. I checked the charts this morning,

everything seems... If it's a fungus, antibiotics aren't going to do any good.

Ricky, maybe we should ask a doctor about this.

Actually, I was just coming to see you. The doctor just sent these over, so

let's go into my office.

Paul? Yeah.

See ya.

How are you holding up?

I liked him more when he came to visit us.

It smells in here.

Yeah, well, get used to it and keep your voice down.

They're all deaf anyways.

He's not getting out again, is he?

Anybody beat aces? Oh, Tom, you always win.

That poker face of his.

It's June.

She's my lucky charm.

It's June's granddaughter who picked out these tickets for me. What a sweet

girl. Oh, boy. Well, one of these days when I win, I'm going to take you to New

York like you're always talking about.

I'm not always talking about it, and I'm from Queens, not New York.

Oh, honey, you're like a dog with a bone.

It's the same thing.

Why would I want to go with you anyway?

Well, because at the rate you're going, you never want to go with your own.

This game's not over yet.

Now, what's the matter with you? The hips again, huh?

What did the doctor say this morning?

Do you know how many times I've slipped on the ice in my life?

Or fallen off a horse, or off the roof, or out of the trees, and I never broke

anything.

I break my hip sitting in this damn chair.

My nose is cold.

Isn't that wonderful?

Did you enjoy that, June?

Don't.

Don't come near me again.

Okay, it's all right, honey. It's all right. Yeah.

Laugh in one minute, the next... I wish you wouldn't talk about it as if she

wasn't here.

Are you kidding?

She's dancing in the past.

Oh, that's hogwash. How do you know that?

Listen, once I had my stroke, I... I know, but you recovered.

Yeah, but I remember what it was like.

Like coming out of a fog.

Isn't that right, June?

You sure have a way with her.

You know, they say that people in comas hear everything.

That's the matter.

I think I need to see the nurse.

What's wrong, honey?

I'll take you down.

Oh, thank you, Frank. You're a true gentleman.

I mean, I would do that for you. I know you would, darling. I know you would.

Well, who am I going to play cards with?

Play with you, dear.

Oh, cute.

Morning, Frank.

Sorry I'm late. My hips are getting in trouble.

Oh, God.

Alice is getting June ready.

I don't feel much like playing cards today.

Oh, not ready for the mouth, huh? Let me do that.

What's the matter?

The sun.

The sun? What's wrong with the sun?

It'll just be here for a few moments.

Maybe we can be a little late today, huh?

Sure, they can live without us for a little while.

It's the only time this room really feels a little warm, you know?

Yeah, see, I don't get the sun until later in the day. You're lucky to have

morning light.

In the winter.

In the factory, around 10 o 'clock every morning, the heat would blast

in a place that'd still be as cold as a whore's heart.

And then the floor warmed up as the sun drifted across,

just like the hand of God after being cold for so long.

You know, children today, you've got to give them cookies just to spell their

own name.

And in our time, everybody wanted to go to college.

Hi, Ho.

Who are you talking to?

June. The damn bell rang an hour ago. Where were you?

I went rubbing my tootsies and stretching.

Well, well.

What were you two doing here, for heaven's sakes? I was waiting at the

table, and now that Wilson woman's got it.

We were stretching.

Can't you stretch in the rec room? It's taken me longer and longer to get out of

bed every day.

Oh, did you take your insulin shots?

Now, why would I want to do that?

I know a woman, Anna Marie, who lived alone, and she forgot to take an insulin

shot. She slipped away into a coma and never recovered. Oh, for criminy's

I took it.

Then what is this?

That's tomorrow's shot.

Yeah, that's tomorrow's shot.

Then why didn't you say so?

I'm just trying to help.

You're just trying to yap, yap, yap.

Yap, yap, yap.

You tell her, June.

You know, it's coming to the point.

Well, I can only get out of this bed once every other day because it's taken

that long to get out of here.

It's important to have a routine.

Anything you do has a 50 -50 chance of becoming a routine if you do it again.

You know, you sound like one of those damn physical therapists.

Well, it's important that he get out of bed every day.

Well, it's important to clam up once in a while.

Don't you think so, Frank?

Huh? Well, don't you think it's important to get out of bed every day?

listen. Let's see if that Wilson woman has the sense enough to get out of our

table.

I mean, I don't care how old I get or how feeble I get. Or how long you

on and on and on.

Oh, you huff and you puff, you big bad wolf.

Oh, that doesn't bother me. That's like water off a duck's back. Do you hear me?

A duck's back? Yes, a duck's back. Because you don't bother me. Because I

hear you.

Oh, that's hot air. Rise to the ceiling, thank God.

Thank you, Pastor.

I don't mean to harp on you.

Oh, don't mention it.

And I know how to have fun just as much as the next girl, but what I'm concerned

about is what I've learned from my students, that the third grade can make

break a kid.

How's Junie today, huh?

You're the fresh one.

I mean, the ones that have a routine, that do it day after day after day, not

forgetting, not giving up, not saying, oh, I don't feel like doing it today.

They're the ones that make it.

And I followed some of them through to college. And I'll bet they appreciated

that. Ladies, Frank.

Hey. I never saw an orange cat that wasn't plump as an October pumpkin.

They sure do get fat, don't they? Fat.

I'm concerned because I don't want you to think that I'm... Alice, did you ever

stop to think that if your habits didn't change over 86 years, how

do you know you'd still be alive?

Amen.

Huh?

Did you enjoy that?

Huh?

It's strange how the mind works.

I think of her as lost.

I know that doctors think that it's Lewy body dementia, but every time they

change her medication, her behavior is different.

So I just see her as June.

Just lost.

And the more we can make things familiar, and the more we try...

the more chance she has of trying to come back to us.

That's what I told my mom. That's why I need to stay here.

Honey, what about your fellowship?

Where is it? In New York? Berkeley in Florida. But even if she doesn't know us

from Adam, what would she think if she... If she what?

Finds out in heaven or whatever that we all abandoned her.

Oh, honey.

If she makes it to heaven, she'll understand.

What's his name? The range master guy at the firing range?

Oh, Fat Randy?

Yeah, he says hi.

Is that what you call him?

Yeah, Fat Randy.

He asked if you were going to come out again.

Showed me his old guns. Wouldn't shoot him, though, but the Luger, the Webley.

Oh, the Webley.

Oh, that Webley had a hell of a kick.

Luger had longer range.

How'd you know that?

What, you think you're the only one who knows anything?

My father told me that during the First World War, the British officers

preferred the Luger to their own pistols for that very same reason.

Longer range?

And better aim. You know, fighting in close quarters in the trenches?

That's what they wanted.

The Luger, everyone wanted an old .45.

Best way to put them down with a fourth -row hit.

Hold on!

You plan it this way?

You're fine. I'll be right back.

You better.

Yeah, be nice.

Jack's in the bathroom. He'll be in. Oh.

Look at here.

I thank you, Jeffrey.

Thank you.

So, you work a lot at night?

Yeah, lately.

How come?

Been to my house.

That's all.

So, how many people are here at night?

Think someone's going to come in and steal all the old people?

No, no.

I mean, if one of them starts to, you know, kick it or whatever.

Baby. Hi.

Can I call you back? No, or... Oh, one sec. Hold on.

One sec.

A nurse sits at that station and monitors everything.

Sure she's not watching Conan?

It's a closed -circuit television.

You know, we're waiting in the hospital right next door.

It's fine.

Hi.

Tonight.

Yeah, come.

That's a book from Okinawa.

Those are the tickets from when you and mom got married, right?

Huh? Oh, yeah.

What is this doing in here?

Yeah, I'm going to take this home.

I don't think you're allowed to have weapons in here.

Oh, well, maybe you want to take these nail clippers home, too.

I could clip somebody to death, you know. What are you going to do with it,

I'm going to show it to Paul.

Oh, show it to Paul. I don't think that's allowed in here.

Look, worry what?

Let me worry about what's allowed in here.

Come on, my friend.

Your grandfather wanted to see you.

Ah, there you are.

We thought you got locked in the hall.

Hey, Paul, look at this. Hey.

Dude, is this yours?

Yeah. And remember... Every gun's a loaded gun. Oh, boy.

Are you planning on taking over the place or what?

Yeah. We're going to tell the cook to make us better food.

Hey, I'm not the cook.

It's the Battle of Corridor 7, right? Yeah.

Does this still shoot?

Well, it could fire, yeah, but you never know after all this time.

Who's this?

Oh, that's my father.

My grandfather and my father and myself were all in separate wars.

Crazy, huh?

What's this?

Oh, that.

That's Luella and my train tickets.

We were going to be married, and these were the train tickets.

It took us down to Key West.

Excuse me, Paul.

You free?

Hi, Rita.

Hey, handsome.

I'm free.

I want to look at these later.

Oh, that's what Jeffrey brought it in for.

All right.

We really ought to get going, Dad. Maybe I should take this. Oh, what for?

Paul hasn't seen it yet.

Can I just say goodbye?

Yeah.

Yeah. Be quick, huh?

Hey, Grandpa.

Sorry I can't stay.

If you can't come out hunting with us, maybe we could still go to the five

range, or you could come out for a labor day.

I bet you.

Okay. I'll ask Mom if you're afraid.

Okay, buddy. All right. See you, Grandpa. Thank you.

Anyway, I'm not too old.

Not too old for what?

Well, PBS has a Spanish show, and you order a book, and you... You know what?

Maybe I could take the class instead.

And I could take a dancing class, too.

Oh, God.

Maybe I'll start taking up horseback riding again, husband.

Not me, honey. I'm going to learn how to salsa.

Hey, hey, sit down, sit down. The numbers are okay.

Now, if I win and you get out of that chair, I'm going to tell you about the

queens. You going with me?

Oh, what, are we bargaining now?

You win the lottery, I'll go back to queens with you. Oh, great, honey.

Great.

Okay.

Huh?

You know what they'd do when they charged, huh?

They'd yell, to hell with Babe Ruth.

You think I'm kidding, huh?

As if that made us any madder than we were.

Even after the war was over, it took us four months to get back home

in a banana boat.

I haven't seen your grandma in more than two years.

Not so bad.

Not bad.

Not bad?

Can you even see down there?

You want to run down there and see how well I can see?

Wait, Jeffrey.

He doesn't.

Be careful now.

Jack knows what he's doing.

Come on, boy.

Up a little.

Up a little.

That's my boy.

You see that?

Yeah, I saw it. Did you?

I'll load this for you, Grandpa.

Just a couple of them, huh?

Okay.

Okay.

Hey,

Dad.

I want to go.

Oh, Gretchen, hi.

Oh, I have this week's lottery tickets.

Oh, honey, thank you so much.

Do you mind if I take you? I want to go see our friend first. Sure, sure. Do you

mind if I walk with you? Oh, no, honey, no.

So I'm going.

I called them, Berkeley.

What?

What do you look like? It's a death sentence.

No, no, I'm happy.

I'm just... I'm sad, too.

I'm definitely coming back if there's an earthquake.

Oh, fuck you, Tom. No earthquake, please.

Imagine how cold people's bones were.

Those people didn't live to be this old.

Oh, and I bet they felt this old.

Oh, this feels so good.

You could only fly up and just follow it.

Float along.

Oh, boy.

Feels so good.

Always dawn.

Hell with dawn.

High noon. It's warmer.

You know, Vicky used to spend gazillions of dollars just to lay in those tanning

boots. Now I can see why.

Wasted.

And what?

Tanning booths are wasted on the young.

Ready?

Card time. Let's go.

Oh, I don't know.

What's with you these days? Come on.

Alice is waiting.

I'll bet she is.

Like death, the happy reaper.

Oh, my God,

where did you get that?

Oh, uh, in the war.

No, I mean here. Who brought it to you?

What is it, an antique?

Oh, it still shoots.

It'll knock a hole in the wall that mice would appreciate.

Well, who brought it to you?

This is how I remember my buddies.

Old friends.

Hair.

But I can't remember their faces.

Just smells.

It's not loaded, is it?

At Luella's flower garden, I smell it clean around the house.

Remember her face.

Frank, is it loaded?

I... I hear him walking down the

hall.

And I... can't... remember.

Frank.

He didn't want this.

Of course he didn't. This is temporary.

He'll be out in no time.

To be kept alive by tubes.

He's not being kept alive by tubes.

He's recovering.

He needs sleep and nutrition.

That's why he's got an IV and oxygen.

They'll be moving him to his room tomorrow.

He said he put it back in here, right? He put it back in here.

What are you looking for?

The gun.

What gun?

It's nothing. Don't worry about it.

This is a war pistol.

What is it doing here?

He wanted to show it to that Paul guy, and so I brought it in.

Oh, great.

Never see that again.

I don't think he'd take it.

You two are so... Paul's his friend, okay?

And you're everything you're saying about his friend.

Oh, God.

It's starting to sound like a damn shopping mall here.

I'm not going to let you ruin my mood, honey.

Who could penetrate that?

Oh, we have company.

Do you mind if I join you, ladies?

No, not there. Okay, okay.

Sit down, sweetheart.

You know, I think we should go into Frank's room.

His son is in there, his daughter's in there, and his grandchildren.

Oh, well, that's perfect.

Sorry about your friend. I hope he gets better soon.

Oh, Dr.

Wood told me about a new study about Mexican kids in Arizona hospitals

from their comas four times quicker than white children.

Why is that, you suppose?

Don't ask her any questions.

No, no, no, the Mexican families move into the hospital.

I mean, Catholics are like that.

And they sing and pray and they wash your little feet.

And the white kids are all alone most of the time.

And many of them don't make it.

And I often think that maybe these kids wake up in the middle of the night. You

know, being in a hospital is very frightening.

Decide to go back to dreaming.

I mean, I feel like that some mornings.

Although I get up every day.

Oh, sweet God.

What are you going to do, report it missing?

Not like he's going to use the gun, Vicki.

He can hear us like Jack said.

We have to respect his wishes, all right? We're there.

The doctor did not say that.

Stop yelling.

He'll be all right here overnight, Jack. Come on.

We'll come back tomorrow, huh?

Yo estoy bien.

Buenos días.

Buenos días.

¿Cómo está?

¿Cómo está?

Yo estoy bien. Yo estoy bien.

You look like Ralph when you're sleeping, you know that?

He could be a pain in the ass before he went to bed.

He'd lay down a couple of seconds later.

He was an angel.

Not that you're a pain in the ass.

How long you been lugging this thing around?

I don't think you wanted to remember the war.

I mean, just holding this thing, it upset the hell out of you.

This is not the way to do it, if that's what you were thinking.

It's too ugly.

It's too selfish.

Be your grandkids.

I'll come back tomorrow when the sun comes back around.

Wait a minute. For heaven's sakes.

You've been bugging me for months about going up to the camp on Labor Day. Now,

do you want me to go or not?

Yes. Okay, let's go.

Wait a minute. Hold it. Hold it. This is ridiculous. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

I can walk.

What are you going to do?

Push me around in a wheelchair in the wood?

Took the day, dressed up inside, opened up to the

world around me.

Now, it's not too late

for the kid inside to step right up and be all that.

my sights.

And my dad has gone crazy, thinking that we're going to lose this buck because

he's letting me, you know, the little half pint take the shot.

Well, I told him, I said, I got him.

I got him, you know. But the buck is still moving toward the woods.

And suddenly, my dad did something that, to this day, I don't know whether he

was a nut or a genius, but he yells out,

And the buck froze.

Just for a moment.

Just enough for me to take the shot.

And I got my buck.

He was always like that. Full of crazy ideas.

He was always full of something.

But somehow they always worked out.

To Grandpa Ross.

Grandpa Ross.

To my dad.

Nuts.

Whiskey. It's glass.

Shame on you, Dad.

How's it taste? Kid's got to grow up. Yeah, well, he did today.

Now, in the fall, when you go out, you get up on the stand, you want to... You

can tell me when you come back in November.

You want to loosen your boot laces so when you get up on the treetop, you can

get better circulation, keep your feet warmer.

Huh?

Go on, get out of here.

Good luck.

Oh, man.

This will be great when I come back out in November.

This is the year. I'm telling you.

I'll feed your family and mine all winter long, and you're welcome.

That a boy.

Now, Grandpa says that I should check out the sight lines and all that up in

old tree stands, but I told him that I'd already been up the last fall, so...

Here.

Now, here, put that up there.

You know, when the old man was teaching me, the whole time he was showing me how

to aim for the center, And in my mind, I'm picturing that I come down with the

axe and I miss, and it goes right through my shins, and I split my shins

Right in front of the old man.

Which makes it worth...

Hey, I

checked the tree stand, and there's a little bit of rotting.

Oh, be careful.

Any keys for that thing?

No dad.

Oh, forgot the plate.

What didn't die?

Jack.

Jack, you shot a deer out of season? You know better than that.

I don't know what I was thinking. It didn't die?

It ran off into the woods.

I ran all the way out there, but it was gone.

That's a nice buck, Jack.

It's yours, not mine. Hey, I don't care. You can have it.

Come on, you got your first ear.

I think we got out of here early enough to beat the traffic on 81.

Grandpa?

Grandpa?

Mom! Mom, stop!

Did he have a stroke or what?

I'm afraid there'll be more.

I always imagined we'd have this argument.

Me and him, you know.

I mean, it would start like every other argument and somehow this time it would

be different.

You know.

This time we'd fix it.

We'd just fix things and he'd say, Oh, that's who you are.

Grandpa?

What's wrong?

Do you want me to get a nurse?

It's okay.

Mom, he's awake.

He ripped his hooves right out.

Come on, Jack.

You need to sedate him.

Help me.

God, you keep me rolling around these halls.

Why?

Damn hips.

What's next?

I used to pray to you when I was a kid.

I don't know why I stopped.

Mommy said that your hand protected everyone,

even the baby birds when they first flew out of their nest.

I always tried to catch you doing that bird trick.

I'd watch the baby birds to see if I could see your hand.

He needs... He needs your hand.

He's trying to fly up to you right now.

Hear me?

It's a full moon.

Harvest moon.

It's a harvest moon.

It is. It's a harvest moon.

You were raised on a farm, weren't you?

I can't stay out long.

Why not?

We're just talking, Junebug.

Why are you calling me that?

You're the hogwash lady.

What does that mean?

A hogwash.

Do you know who I am?

You collect money at the church.

We all just scrambled up in there.

I miss you.

I really miss you.

You're the only one I trusted.

You never made fun of me.

Oh, now look what you've done.

It's gone to my liver, Junebug.

It isn't so frightening after all, is it?

being in the darkness.

Is it?

Don't tell me, man.

I'm just... How did you get in here?

I stayed in after visiting hours.

You were in here earlier?

I snuck in through the open back door.

He's been acting weird.

The IV?

He's getting worse, isn't he?

I know what he was doing.

We upped his IV to keep him sedated.

When he wakes up, I'm not even sure he knows who I am.

His thoughts are jumbled.

Sometimes he'll be lucid.

Sometimes he won't.

He's going to be fine tonight.

Come on.

Let's get you out of here.

Yo estoy bien.

Tú estás bien.

Tú estás bien.

That's very good, Peggy. Gracias.

Your grandmother spoke Italian.

Was she Italian?

Go on.

Él está bien.

Él está bien.

Okay.

Well, if all this is true, Frank's learning Spanish with me.

You're not through.

Sorry.

But wouldn't that show if Frank woke up speaking Spanish?

I had to give up salsa dancing.

Dr. Hadley said enough was enough.

But I can still walk.

You're being silly.

Tom, you should see what your daughter's doing in here.

Oh, Mom, look what I can do.

You'll never learn Spanish this way.

I'll never learn Spanish.

Yo estoy fatigado.

Muy fatigado.

What are you doing in here?

Good morning.

¿Cómo está usted?

Are you bothering Frank again with that Spanish stuff?

What did the doctor say?

Nothing, I'm fine. He says it's healing.

See, you can never give up hope about walking again.

Oh, Alice, stop with that.

sunshiny weather report of yours.

You're worse than Christmas, you know that?

Well, can I be alone here with... Oh, this is your time with him, isn't it?

Yeah, I guess so. I know how important it is for you.

And June needs a nap, so I'll take her back to the room.

Adios, Frank.

Hasta. Later.

Auf Wiedersehen.

Vicki says you can hear me.

It was never about your war.

It was never about you.

You always said stand up for yourself.

I tried to tell you that so many times, but I'd always end up ruining another

one of Mom's Sunday dinners, another holiday dinner.

Be responsible.

Be a man.

It was a different war.

My war.

Not so simple.

Woke up last night.

You're awake.

I think I should let the nurse know because the doctor would want to see

No.

No.

I didn't think you were coming back.

They didn't find it.

Oh, I hid it.

It's heavy as hell, this thing.

Can I have it back now?

What if I drop dead and they found this thing on me?

Thank you for keeping it for me.

No, I wasn't keeping it for you.

I was keeping it for your damn son, telling him never to bring it back here.

No.

Look at the position that you put me in here, lugging this damn thing around.

Lying. Please, don't be another Alice.

That's how I remember.

I hold the gun, and I see them.

My buddies.

What are you doing?

What does it look like I'm doing? You think I want them to find my

on this?

I'm going to stick it right in here.

How are you?

How are you?

You're leaving,

aren't you?

My car's packed.

I'm going to stay with my sister until I can find my own apartment.

I decided to go early and look for a part -time job.

Good for you, baby. Good for you.

I feel so much better knowing that you're here.

You're not going to move, are you? You'll still be around to help take care

her? I'll be fine, honey.

She has many friends here, not just me.

No, not like you.

Promise me you won't just let her sit around here doing nothing.

I can't say anything about that.

I promise, honey.

I promise.

Remember, she's not lonely.

We are.

I mean, she has a world in her head.

So you get out there and get some of your own memories, okay?

Okay.

He didn't take his insulin shot yesterday.

Again? Paul had to give it to him.

He's forgetting.

Perhaps.

Look, I don't want to alarm you, but your power of attorney means that you'll

keep giving him the shot.

I'll talk to him.

Hey.

What the hell do you want?

Be nice, Dad.

Do you need anything?

Want some water?

Should I get the nurse?

Water sounds good.

We got a call.

You're not taking your insulin. Vicky's on the warpath.

Oh, thanks for the warning.

What did Paul think of the gun?

You don't like Paul very much, do you? Where is it?

In the drawer.

Oh, yeah?

A friend had it. Who, Paul?

None of your business.

No, not Paul.

What's your beef with Paul?

I don't know, Dad.

Why did you ever tell me the story about Babe Ruth?

I mean, you tell it to Paul, you tell it to Jack, you don't tell it to me, you

don't tell it to Vicki.

Well, I would have loved to have heard that story.

The reason was that I didn't want you guys to know or to think about it.

Yeah, they used to yell.

The hell with Babe Ruth.

Yeah, that's what they did.

They yelled it when they knew they were going to die.

They'd come at our lines, wave after wave, hundreds of them.

And we'd shoot them all down, shoot them down, night after night

after night.

Yelling, the hell with Babe Ruth!

The hell with Babe Ruth!

But they knew what they were in for.

I never understood that.

That's what they used to do, all right.

The hell with Babe Ruth!

And you'd kill.

You'd kill.

Where the

hell was Babe Ruth?

Thank you.

I'm telling you, if you heal up and you walk again, I'm taking you back to the

queen.

We can go see that department store you're always talking about. Yeah,

and Strauss. I mentioned it one time.

It's been closed for years.

All right, so we'll go see what else is there now.

Okay, if it's turned into a crack house, I'm going to leave you there.

Oh, oh, look at that.

I think you got something here. They're going to give you something. I mean,

with four numbers, they give you something.

Really? Yes.

Four.

Frank, I didn't mean to rat you out yesterday. I just

can't have you skipping those shots.

You're doing your job.

You know what can happen, right? If you go into a coma, we feed you through

tubes.

You know that.

Hi. You left the TV on again.

I was coming right back.

Oh, it's good to see you up again.

Did you have your physical therapy?

They bend my arm and bend my leg.

Over and over and over again. It's hell.

Like a frog with an electric current.

And he jumps.

They don't give me my good teeth back anymore.

She's here.

It sounds like it.

It's a miracle.

Don't. You're going to scare her.

Do you want your good teeth back?

Would you like to have your teeth back, June?

Please.

This could happen to your leg or your arm even one day.

And my mind, too.

You know the way that you flirt with her?

Talk to her like that. Maybe you can bring her back.

Alice, it doesn't work that way.

Well, she won't do it for me. I wasn't there.

But you could do it. You could bring her back. You're talking nonsense.

It's not nonsense.

It's not. As long as my heart is beating, I'll feel this way.

And if it stops and I can bring it back, then it will be the hand of God.

Maybe, maybe if you leave her alone with me.

Sure.

Wait a minute, it was a fluke.

Let's see what he can do.

You don't listen to anyone but yourself. Yes, I do.

I don't want to break my hip again.

It's amazing how the sick can heal the sick. He was jerking your chain, that's

all.

That's why God is keeping him here, and me, and you.

I think we're both in trouble.

Miracles happen, she says.

Mother says I have to be home by nine.

Next time.

The Red Sea will pardon your veins, she says.

I told her that just when things start to happen.

Alex, get the kids in the basement.

No, no.

Not you, Jude.

Not you.

Did you enjoy that?

Did you enjoy that, June?

Just stay away from me. Don't come near me again. Don't! Don't! Don't!

Don't!

What's the matter with you?

Are you out of your mind, Frank?

I'm sorry, June.

You're sorry, June?

You almost shot me.

I'm sorry.

The nurses are coming quick. Hide the gun. Hide the gun.

What are you nuts?

We're going to get in trouble.

Oh, I'm so glad that we all entertained you. We could have been killed.

Thank you, sir. And again, thanks for your patience. Take care.

What's going on? It's all right, Dad. You're not going to be charged with

anything. Either am I, for that matter.

What were you thinking, Dad?

Dad, we know you're awake.

Made up in mind.

You know that, right?

He's off the machines. The decision is completely different. Stop the insulin.

Stopping the insulin wouldn't... Vicki, it's his idea.

You talked about it with him?

I didn't have to.

He's made it pretty obvious.

He needs us to give him permission.

I'll do it for you, Grandpa.

The gun's gone, but I'll bet we can get it.

I'll do it for you, Grandpa.

What are you talking about?

I know you really want to do this, so I'll do it, okay?

Oh, no.

No, my boy, no.

No, no, no. Oh, no.

It's not going to be completely painless.

He'll be dehydrated.

He knows.

Wait, you know he's going to want to stop all of his medications, not just

insulin. And we've got to get him to take pain meds.

He'll accept that, right?

Yeah, if we make the case.

Oh, Jeffrey, have you changed those pipes in the basement yet?

What? Oh, no, Dad. I thought I'd wait till spring.

Well, it'll go on this long, but it'll last a little longer.

Dad, Jeff's been busy.

Don't worry, Dad. I'll get to it.

Okay.

Hey, did that woman from the state stop by to see you today?

What woman from the state?

She said everything was going to be fine.

What woman from the state?

Frank is having his living will revised.

Why?

There's an error in spelling.

Come on, Frank.

I'm asking you a very simple question.

I told them I didn't want any more machines to keep me alive.

Frank, you're getting better.

Listen to how clearly you're speaking.

Only now, look.

You have such color in your cheeks.

Look at this.

Look. See?

Look at that color. That's why you have to keep taking the insulin, honey.

I told them I'm not taking any more medicine.

And no tubes.

I can't let you do that, Frank.

Well, it would be very painful.

In that case, dear Alice, you'll have several days to come sit and not

talk about me.

Ella told me you wanted big, huh?

We both want big.

I won exactly $200, and that's exactly what we need for two tickets to Queens.

I mean, it's a miracle.

You said it was $160.

We've got to have lunch, too, right? No, that's exactly right.

You should go.

Oh, please, not you, too.

Oh, come on. Go give him hell one last time.

Frank.

Are you sure you want to do this?

Sure about what?

You silly old fool.

Listen, Frank, Alice and me, we're going to sit this one out with you.

Thank you.

I'll come back tomorrow when the sun comes back around.

I'll see you tomorrow.

To Grandpa Ross. Grandpa Ross.

My dad.

Nuts.

You actually went to the World's Fair?

Yeah. Oh, I want to see that big sphere.

Where is it?

Flushing Park.

Flushing Park.

Oh.

Maybe we can have a couple of hot dogs or something like that. Is that what

do there?

Yeah, hit me, will you please? Just hit me. I wish you would not use that

expression.

Oh, God, please. I just, can we play cards? I just want to play cards. Okay,

okay.

Good. More. Hit me again.

Hit me again.

Now you hit too hard. You bet.

I'll take the aisle. That way you can watch the city as we come in. Honey, you

take the window. No, no, no. That way we wouldn't be able to sit together.

Well, that's, you know, that's one of the heartbreaks of life. No, no, no. Let

me give you the window. That way you can watch the skyline as we come into your

old city. Are you going to chat the whole way?

We have a distance.

I hear you. I hear you. I internalize everything.

Thank you.

Took the day, dressed up inside, opened up to

the world around me.

Now,

it's not too late for the kid inside

to step right up and be all...

To the day dressed up inside, opened up to the

world.

Get inside.